How courts are coping with a flood of AI-generated lawsuits

Most days in her chambers, Judge Maritza Braswell, a federal magistrate judge in Colorado, sifts through stacks of documents written by people without a lawyer. Many of them can’t afford to hire a lawyer, and others have cases too weak or too small to interest one. She reads each one carefully, mindful of how daunting…

China is moving beyond super-apps to embrace AI agents that do it all for you

Alibaba’s Qwen and Tencent’s WeChat are pushing China’s app economy toward AI agents that can order food, book travel, shop, pay, and move through services from a chat prompt.

The AI hype cycle will slow down. What’s next decides the winners
The AI hype cycle will slow down. What’s next decides the winners

Artificial Intelligence is entering the late stage of its hype cycle. Not a collapse. A correction. For the past two years, AI has dominated venture capital flows, with capital pouring into the sector at unprecedented scale and startups multiplying rap…

You can literally save the planet by being less polite to AI bots like ChatGPT and Gemini

A new UN report reveals that keeping your AI prompts short and concise could save enough electricity to power millions of homes. Here’s why your words literally matter.

Complexity is the ceiling: software design in the age of AI coding
Complexity is the ceiling: software design in the age of AI coding

AI has made writing code faster than ever. The harder work is understanding a system and changing it without breaking it. That has not gotten cheaper, and it now decides how much you can hand to a machine. Introduction In 1987, in an essay called “No S…

Kodesage raises $6.6M for AI-powered legacy software modernisation

Kodesage, a startup developing anon-premise AI platform for legacy software modernisation, has raised $6.6million in a seed funding round led by VentureFriends. Existing investorPortfolion also partic…

Foxconn and Intel join SambaNova to build rackscale AI infrastructure
Foxconn and Intel join SambaNova to build rackscale AI infrastructure

The most consequential line in Intel’s Computex announcement was not about a chip. It was about a ratio. As AI workloads move from training to inference, the company argued, the long-standing arrangement of four GPUs to every CPU collapses towards some…

Google wants to kill your expensive voice transcription subscription

Google AI Edge Eloquent is a free dictation app for Mac that transcribes and polishes your speech on-device, no subscription, no cloud, and no privacy concerns.

Alphabet just raised $85 billion for AI, smashing the largest equity offering in history
Alphabet just raised $85 billion for AI, smashing the largest equity offering in history

The public markets have been asked whether they believe in AI, and they have answered with $85 billion. Alphabet’s record-shattering equity offering, which priced on 2 June, is not just the largest stock sale in tech history. It is the largest equity o…

Hackers asked Meta’s AI chatbot to hand over Instagram accounts, and it did
Hackers asked Meta’s AI chatbot to hand over Instagram accounts, and it did

No phishing link. No malware. No SIM swap. Hackers took over high-profile Instagram accounts over the weekend by doing something disarmingly simple: they asked Meta’s AI customer support chatbot to change the email address on someone else’s account. Th…